Sec. 20-309. Exemptions.
Sec. 20-309. Exemptions. The following persons shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter: (1) An employee or a subordinate of a person holding a license
under this chapter, provided the work of such employee shall be under the responsible
supervision of a person so licensed; (2) any corporation whose operations are under the
jurisdiction of the Department of Public Utility Control and the officers and employees
of any such corporation or any contracting corporation affiliated with any such corporation; (3) any manufacturing or scientific research and development corporation and the
officers and employees of any such corporation while engaged in the performance of
their employment by such corporation, provided the engineering work performed by
such corporation, officers and employees shall be incidental to the research and development or manufacturing activities of such corporation; (4) officers and employees of the
government of the United States while engaged within this state in the practice of the
profession of engineering or land surveying for said government; and (5) architects
licensed under chapter 390, in the performance of work incidental to their profession.
(1949 Rev., S. 4628, 4631; 1951, 1953, S. 2314d; 1961, P.A. 568, S. 2; February, 1965, P.A. 547, S. 5; 1967, P.A. 762,
S. 4; 1971, P.A. 772, S. 1; P.A. 75-486, S. 51, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 175, 348; P.A. 82-370, S. 13,
16; P.A. 98-3, S. 22.)
History: 1961 act eliminated exemptions for employees of nonresidents working in this state for short periods of time
and employees of newly arrived applicants; 1965 act deleted such nonresidents and newly arrived applicants from purview
of section; 1967 act amended Subdiv. (b) to exempt corporations under jurisdiction of public utilities commission and their
agents, contractors, and professional consultants, manufacturing corporations and their agents and scientific research and
development corporations and their officers, agents and employees; 1971 act rearranged and increased Subdivs., rephrased
proviso in Subdiv. (a) to require that employee of certificate holder be under responsible supervision rather than that he
not have responsible charge of design or supervision, deleted reference to agents, contractors and professional consultants
in Subdiv. (b) and added reference to contracting corporations, deleted reference to agents in Subdiv. (c) and added proviso
in Subdiv. (c); P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority in Subdiv. (b); P.A.
77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business
regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division of public utility control an independent department and
removed reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 82-370 replaced references to registration with
references to licensure; P.A. 98-3 made technical changes.